Anderson County asking for input on 911 service
Staff / WVLT News
May 4, 2025
MissionCIT is a company aimed at training and improving emergency response systems across the country.
With New System, You’ll be Able to Text 911 in Westfield
David Sexton / TAPinto Westfield
May 4, 2025
WESTFIELD, NJ — People in Westfield will be able to text to 911 emergency services as soon as next summer after a new emergency call system is installed and the compatible technology becomes available, according to Westfield Police Chief Christopher Battiloro.
800+ calls into 911 on the day of FSU shooting, how agencies coordinated and responded to threat
Maya Sargent / WTXL Tallahassee
May 2, 2025
There were 808 calls in 3 hours into this Consolidated Dispatch Agency on the day of the FSU campus shooting. It’s a volume that leaders here said they hadn’t seen since their time here. We're finding out how they coordinated a law enforcement response to these calls on the day of the shooting.
Palm Beach County Schools launch new 911 mapping tech to boost campus safety
Vanessa Laurent / WPBF News
May 2, 2025
PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. — The Palm Beach County School District is rolling out new technology aimed at improving school safety by giving emergency responders faster, more accurate information during a crisis.
City halts 311 street tree requests, disappointing grass-roots tree activists
Staff / Brooklyn Daily Eagle
May 2, 2025
Town to Answer Most 911 Calls Starting in 2026
Christopher Gangemi / The East Hampton Star
May 5, 2025
People calling 911 in East Hampton Town won't notice a change, but come Jan. 1, for the first time in decades, calls coming from outside of East Hampton Village will be handled from the town police headquarters instead of from the village's Emergency Services Building.
Davidson County commissioners address emergency service worker shortages
Jill Doss-Raines / The Dispatch
May 2, 2025
The Davidson County Board of Commissioners voted Thursday to increase pay to help reduce lingering vacancies at the county’s 911 communication center and install programs to decrease vacancies at emergency medical services.
Local police scanners to go dark to the public Tuesday
Aspen Anderson / Herald Net
May 5, 2025
EVERETT — Police radio communications across Snohomish County will be encrypted starting May 6, cutting off public access to real-time scanner traffic, officials announced Tuesday at a press conference outside the new Snohomish County 911 headquarters.